100 Women of Color Leaders Have Joined Forces to Remind You That Our Work Starts Now

"This morning, we come together to declare our resolve," wrote 100 women of color leaders in an open letter published on our100.org. "We know that there is tremendous suffering and anger in this country, yet we stand here today, determined."

The women, which include Alicia Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and Teresa Younger, president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation, have vowed to organize citizens over the next 100 hours and in the first 100 days of the new administration to stand with women of color in leadership position to find "solutions that support a vision for Black lives, an end to violence against women and girls, power to make decisions about our bodies, health and reproduction, common sense immigration reform, and an end to Islamophobia."

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Assuming those seem like not only worthy but essential goals, you can join them. They've outlined the work we have to do and will start by organizing community events across the country over the next 100 hours. After that, they'll continue to hold our representatives accountable to women.

"Women did this work, not to get one woman a new job, but because we understood the stakes in this election," the signatories wrote. "Black lives, women's lives, immigrant's lives, the lives of LGBTQ folks, of people with disabilities; of working people of every race, region and ethnicity, including those at Standing Rock and others protecting our land. We know that the future and well-being of this country depends on the health and well-being of all women."